From Henry Holland 20 April [1868]
Summary
Sends CD a copy of a book he has had printed mainly for the interest of his children and grandchildren [later published as Recollections of past life (1872)].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 250 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6131 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1868
Summary
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6132 |
From John Hellins 20 April 1868
Summary
Gives the evidence on which he relied for his view, which CD thinks is erroneous, of proportion of sexes in Lepidoptera.
| Author: | John Hellins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B71–75, B79–82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6133 |
From George Bentham [before 22 April 1868]
Summary
Has studied Variation with interest.
Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,
but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.
Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6134 |
From W. E. Darwin [22? April 1868]
Summary
Charles Langstaff on action of muscles in crying. He believes the primary object of the contraction of the orbicularis is to protect the eye from blood.
Blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22? Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 83, 80, 80/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6137 |
From Henry Doubleday 22 April 1868
Summary
On proportion of sexes;
coloration of sexes in Lepidoptera.
Sexual attraction of female Saturnia carpini.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6139 |
From Fritz Müller 22 April 1868
Summary
His opinion of Pangenesis.
On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.
Sexual differences.
Music of Cicadae.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A85–6; Möller 1915–21, 2: 140; Darwin Library–CUL (tipped into CD’s copy of F. Müller 1864a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6140 |
From Gerolamo Boccardo 23 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for gift of Variation.
GB sent copies of his Fisica del globo [1868] to Lyell and the presidents of British scientific societies but has received no acknowledgment; asks CD to check that they received the work. Could CD arrange for a notice of the book to appear in England?
| Author: | Gerolamo Boccardo |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6142 |
From A. R. Wallace 28 April [1868]
Summary
Various topics related to sexual selection: sexual differences, sexual preferences, coloration.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 120–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6144 |
From J. J. Weir 28 April – 4 May 1868
Summary
Observations on root-climbers. Variegated and arborescent varieties of Hedera.
[CD’s notes are for his reply, 6165.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr – 4 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6145 |
From George Bentham 30 April 1868
Summary
Discusses Hildebrand
and criticises Delpino.
Asks to borrow C. K. Sprengel’s Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur [1793].
Botanists have no explanation of the case of Viola odorata and other showy flowers being sterile while inconspicuous ones bear seed.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6147 |
From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 and 8 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6149 |
From J. J. Weir [14 April 1868]
Summary
Starlings find new mates readily. Nesting in threes common.
Recognition of song by birds.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6152 |
From Charles Langstaff [after 22? April 1868]
Summary
Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.
| Author: | Charles Langstaff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22? Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7413 |
From Theodor Engelmann 25 April 1868
Summary
In response to CD’s letter of 21 April, TE has forwarded the 67 clichés of the woodcuts from Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)]; acknowledges CD’s cheque for £3 6s. in payment.
| Author: | Theodor Engelmann; Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6143 |
| letter | (55) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Weir, J. J. | (6) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Binstead, C. H. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Boccardo, Gerolamo | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
| Engelmann, Theodor | (1) |
| Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
| Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
| Geach, F. F. | (1) |
| Gray, G. R. | (2) |
| Grove, W. R. | (1) |
| Hellins, John | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Howell, W. G. | (1) |
| Langstaff, Charles | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Samuelson, James | (1) |
| Smith, John (c) | (1) |
| Thurber, George | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Weir, J. J. | (6) |
